From 67e055d144c5b2acdc1c63811fde031263bf92c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:48:20 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] cgroups: fix possible use after free

In cgroup_kill_sb(), root is freed before sb is detached from the list, so
another sget() may find this sb and call cgroup_test_super(), which will
access the root that has been freed.

Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 kernel/cgroup.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index e14db9c089b9..9edb5c4b79b4 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1122,8 +1122,8 @@ static void cgroup_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb) {
 
 	mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
 
-	kfree(root);
 	kill_litter_super(sb);
+	kfree(root);
 }
 
 static struct file_system_type cgroup_fs_type = {
-- 
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